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Fig. 2 ( a – l ) From the top and left to right : ( a ) Dr. Takeo
Imai, Tohoku University; ( b ) the Scientifi c Councilor of
French Embassy; ( c ) preparation for exportation; ( d )
experiment for single-seed oyster; ( e ) Mr. Kunio Goto,
preparing single-seed oyster; ( f ) single-seed oysters;
( g ) preparing single-seed oysters; ( h ) sorting and packing
of seed oysters; ( i ) reportage by French TV crew; ( j ) sanitary and pathological check; ( k ) start to France by plane;
and ( l ) Professor Doumenge with the Mayor of Ishinomaki
City
Development of Aquaculture (ADA), visited the
Sanriku region and related organizations and
regional fi shery cooperatives to encourage
them. And on the beginning of February 2012,
Dr. Hubert-Jean Ceccaldi, the president of
SFJO of France, and Dr. Georges Stora of Centre
d’Océanologie de Marseille, vice Secretary of
SFJO of France, visited there also (Fig. 4a–e ).
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Exchange Information
and French-Japanese Joint
Seminar on Restoration
of Oyster Culture in Sanriku
About one and a half years after the disaster, in
September 2012, thanks to a donation of
Maison Franco-Japonaise, a joint seminar was
An Example of Friendship and Cooperation Between France and Japan: Oyster Farming in Sanriku…